If you have not yet heard from the law school, sending an addendum is a bad idea. Your application will be pulled from the work flow and moved to the end of the stack. This might reduce an already-slim chance of admission. Once you've been wait-listed, however, a good statement of interest can become valuable.

"Information provided by the DeLoggio Admissions Achievement Program. Further information is available at <http://www.deloggio.com>, or by e-mail at <deloggio@mindspring.com>"

I'm going to the back of the line for sending an addendum!? I wish I had known this a few days ago... great...

I wonder if I should send a LOCI before I am waitlisted or deferred, as I assume I will be as per Northeastern's LSN profile. I mean it has been a while since I applied.

"Yes! Virtually every law school said that a statement of interest in their school could make an enormous difference. Many of the admissions officers who said this represent schools that do not ask the question on the application. However, they also made it clear that generic or uninformed statements count as no statements. So if you're going to try this strategy, you'd better be prepared to tell them a good deal more than their US News ranking. Also, remember to tell them why the information is important to you. The representative for Northwestern laughed along with me when I told him of my client who wrote, "Northwestern Law School is right on Lake Michigan" without explaining why she cared about this."

Now I don't feel like such a horrible applicant. Hmmm. It could be good for those of us who REALLY want to do law once we start school... there could be quite a few people who are not gunning for the top of the class or chasing after the best jobs b/c law isn't really a dream for them.